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Originally Posted by Cracker
Glenn:
...the 55 mph speed limit ... may even cut down on road rage, traffic deaths, and highway maintenance!
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I don't disagree about the speed limit, at least in principle, but the raw numbers of fatalities have decreased since the 55 limit went away. Adjust that on a per capita basis or a per-million mile basis and it's pretty impressive (something like 55000/year in the late 60's to 45000 in the mid 80's, to around 42000 lately).
One of the factors that seems to be at work was that a 55mph limit encouraged people to drive on secondary roads. So... why not a 100kph limit for federal highways? Although the long, tedious agonizing hours between Odessa Texas and Albuquerque aren't really helped by that, it seems a place to start.